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• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Sarah '08 had a lot of fun climbing them. Getting up was one thing, but ... distinction of having its own dark god, Krotus. He's like a mascot, only cooler

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Elizabeth's other observations remain accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  0

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... lot of people have been having final projects due this week. Outside ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  So I just read this article in Time Magazine about bringing schools out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... don't know know? 4. What type of environments are most conducive to

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I ... two-second timer instead of ten-second." "You better run." "Don't worry!"

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PrimeShooter An addictive factoring game.

  

  game which actually relates to the name of this very blog. It's like ... check out the Math Department here and its plethora of resources. Here are a few other good math opportunities and resources: Art of Problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought ... -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> winner. More pictures of some of

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cross-Cultural Conference

  

  to expect, but here are some of the topics they are planning on covering: History of Diversity@MIT 1861 to present Cross ... Cross-cultural Ally Development Roundtable discussions on topics of choice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where students have lots of freedom and unique opportunities. Some students will do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005